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CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
GitHub provides hosting for git repositories and other services and tools for software development teams.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
iBuyNU is a web-based ordering tool integrated into NUFinancials. It provides departments and schools with a streamlined, cost effective way to order from University Preferred Vendors.
Easily collect data through surveys, quizzes, and polls using Forms. The application automatically generates graphs using responses and can be exported to Excel for more in-depth analysis.
myHR is Northwestern’s system of record for Human Resources data. Employees and Administrators can access processes and data associated with payroll, benefits, talent acquisition, and compensation.
JMP accelerates exploration and discovery, giving you new ways to visualize and understand your data and share your findings with others. Analysis is faster, especially with large data sets, and you get more options for drag-and-drop graph-building, as well as new tools for analyzing quality and reliability data, designing efficient experiments, interactively comparing models, creating customized applications, and more.
Northwestern offers many ways to help your IT system authenticate or authorize users. This includes Active Directory, LDAP, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Shibboleth, SAML, and others.
NUPlans is a budget-planning and forecasting tool that connects with NUFinancials.
Opportunities for members of the University to communicate events and advertisements with the campus at large is available through a Digital Signage Service using the REACH Media Network platform.
Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
BioRender is an online, cloud-based platform that allows researchers to create scientific figures. Create and customize membranes, cell layers, and DNA in seconds with drawing tools. Visualize and customize 3D protein structures with our PDB integration or upload your own protein data file. Easily auto-align to a grid or other objects for a clean and professional look.
Qualtrics is an easy-to-use, web-based tool for creating and conducting full-featured online surveys.
StudyTracker is Northwestern University’s centralized application for managing human research studies. It supports tracking IRB protocols, study status, participant enrollment, and compliance activities, helping research teams and administrators streamline oversight and reporting.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently.
All OnBase users require an OnBase account to connect to the OnBase server.
Northwestern has licensed the CrowdStrike Falcon software application for protecting managed endpoints against viruses, malware, and ransomware. This solution is an integral component of endpoint security, which utilizes artificial intelligence and a lightweight agent, providing visibility into the entire threat lifecycle and allowing IT and security professionals to act quickly and effectively to critical security events on Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.